[image 00792] Re: CfP: ACCV 2014 Workshop: First International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR2014)

2014年 8月 20日 (水) 14:03:22 JST

Image-ML、Document-MLのみなさま

大阪府立大学の岩村と申します。

以前ご案内させていただきました、情景中の文字などの認識に関するワークショップ
	First International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR2014)
の論文投稿締切まで3週間となりましたので、再度ご案内させていただきます。

論文投稿ならびに聴講のご検討を、ぜひよろしくお願いいたします。


2014/06/20 23:34, Masakazu Iwamura wrote:
> Image-ML、Document-MLのみなさま
> 
> 大阪府立大学の岩村と申します。
> 
> 11月にシンガポールで行われます ACCV2014 の直前に、
> 情景中の文字などの認識に関するワークショップ
> 	First International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR2014)
> を開催いたします。
> 
> 文字認識研究は一時期下火になっていましたが（と言うと怒られるかもしれませ
> んが&^^;）、情景中の文字（scene text）という新たな研究対象を得て、CVPRや
> ICCVでも発表を見かけるなど、息を吹き返しつつあります。
> 
> 論文締切は9月10日とまだ3ヶ月ほどありますので、是非論文投稿をご検討ください。
> （ACCV本体に投稿して、駄目ならIWRRという手もあります）
> 
> 
> 現在、以下の方々の招待講演を企画しています。
> ・Prof. Jiri Matas とその学生である Lukas Neumann（ICDAR2013で学生賞受賞）
> ・コンペティションで最高性能を達成した Google OCRのチーム （調整中）
> 
> もし興味がおありでしたら、聴講だけでもご検討いただければ幸いです。
> 
> 
> 
> ========== Call for Papers: IWRR 2014 ==========
> 
> 	First International Workshop on Robust Reading
> 	(in conjunction with ACCV 2014)
> 	-----------------------------------------------
> 	November 1 or 2, 2014
> 	National University of Singapore, Singapore
> 	Web: http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/
> 
> 
> Interpreting written communication (textual or symbolic) is one of the
> most important human activities. It is, however, one of the most
> difficult ones for computers to realize and has been recognized as an
> unsolved challenge. In the community of Document Analysis and
> Recognition (DAR), research on unconstrained reading systems has been of
> central interest. The series of ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC),
> which is held in conjunction with biannual International Conference of
> Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), has played an important role,
> especially, by providing standardized datasets that have become the
> de-facto evaluation benchmarks in the area and providing an opportunity
> to compare methods.
> 
> Recently, this kind of research, especially research on reading scene
> text, has attracted the interest and is increasingly accepted by the
> wider computer vision (CV) community. Papers on related topics have been
> consistently presented in major CV conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV
> and ACCV. In these papers, ICDAR RRC datasets are used as standard
> measures of methods.
> 
> Responding to this trend, we organize the First International Workshop
> on Robust Reading (IWRR 2014) in conjunction with ACCV 2014. The
> workshop aims at turning the spotlight on the challenge of unconstrained
> reading systems. The goal of the workshop is to attract the wider CV
> community to put research efforts on this challenging research topic, as
> well as to motivate many researchers from the DAR community to attend
> ACCV 2014.
> 
> Topics of Interest
> ---------------------------
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
>   - Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition
>   - Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences
>   - Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images
>   - Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
>   - Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text
>   - Performance evaluation and metrics
>   - Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc
>   - Graphical content interpretation in complex settings
> 
> Submission (Updated!)
> ---------------------------
> The workshop organizers welcome original technical papers related to the
> workshop topics. All submissions must follow the guideline of ACCV 2014.
> Namely, submissions must be a maximum of 14 pages (not including
> references). Supplementary material can be submitted. Submissions,
> including supplementary material, must be self-contained. Submitted
> papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee in a double
> blind manner (so all submissions must be anonymised). Papers violating
> the formatting rules will be rejected without review.
> There is another way of submission; submit your paper to ACCV2014 and
> designate IWRR as the "optional workshop." Please see the workshop
> webpage for more detail.
> 
> Publication (Updated!)
> ---------------------------
> Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will
> be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
> series and also contained in the USB stick distributed in the conference
> site. Accepted papers must be registered and presented; otherwise they
> will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
> 
> The workshop organizers welcome technical papers with novel,
> thought-provoking work and ideas relating to the workshop topics. All
> submissions must be formatted in ACCV 2014 format and contain original
> work that is not being published or under review elsewhere. Each
> submission will undergo a double-blind reviewing process. All accepted
> papers will be published online on the workshop website. More
> information can be found on the workshop website.
> 
> Important Dates (Updated!)
> ---------------------------
> Paper submission due:	September 10, 2014
> Author Notification:	September 24, 2014
> Camera-ready paper due:	September 30, 2014
> 
> Co-Chairs
> ---------------------------
>   Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan)
>   Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
>   Faisal Shafait (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
>   Pramod Sankar Kompalli (Xerox Research India, India)
> 
> Program Committee (Updated!)
> ---------------------------
>   Alessandro Bissacco (Google, USA)
>   Sergi Belongie (Cornell Univ., USA)
>   Bernard Ghanem (King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Saudi
> Arabia)
>   Erik Learned-Miller (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
>   Raghavan Manmatha (Amazon.com, USA)
>   Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
>   Gaofeng Meng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
>   Ajmal Saeed Mian (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
>   Ray Smith (Google, USA)
>   Palaiahnakote Shivakumara (National University of Malaya, Malaysia)
>   Jun Sun (Fujitsu R&D China, China)
>   Phan Quy Trung (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
>   Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
>   Kai Wang (Google, USA)
>   Jerod J. Weinman (Grinnell College, USA)
> 
> Inquiries: iwrr2014-inquiry ＠ ml.osakafu-u.ac.jp
> 
> 

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  Masakazu Iwamura, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor
	Dept. of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems
	Graduate School of Engineering
	Osaka Prefecture University
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